. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . ans in the MichiganCentral depot in the summer of 1865, Detroit was pervadedwith the fervid heat of active patriotism. The monument onthe Campus Martius to the 90,747 Michigan soldiers of thewar for the suppression of the Rebellion, is a just as well as amagnificent testimonial. With peace, under the wise practical guidance of Cass,after the war .of 1812, came immigration, growth, prosperity,and wealth. Detroit had little more than a thousand inhabi-tants when a century old. It was still a frontier town. Thenineteenth
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . ans in the MichiganCentral depot in the summer of 1865, Detroit was pervadedwith the fervid heat of active patriotism. The monument onthe Campus Martius to the 90,747 Michigan soldiers of thewar for the suppression of the Rebellion, is a just as well as amagnificent testimonial. With peace, under the wise practical guidance of Cass,after the war .of 1812, came immigration, growth, prosperity,and wealth. Detroit had little more than a thousand inhabi-tants when a century old. It was still a frontier town. Thenineteenth century has seen it grow to a stately andbeautiful city of nearly 300,000, with an extensive commerceboth by water and by rail; with great and varied manufactures,the products of which are sent to every quarter of the globe;adorned by art and refined taste, and distinguished also for itseducational, religious, charitable, and benevolent institutions. The traveler enters the city, of course, by the MichiganCentral, and passes through its elegant and commodious ^^^ TW# 4 ^. Alichigan Central Station from the
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